Food fads come and go. Some are good -- hello, Cronut! Some are everlasting -- bacon on everything! And some are just WTF -- flavored infused foams? Why, Ferran Adria, why? The latest craze sweeping across the country falls squarely into the last category. Yes, I mean “bone broth.”

We live in the world of “egotarian cuisine,” or, as Andrew Zimmern recently put it, “the age where no one is allowed to criticize the best chefs and restaurants in the world.” Fair enough, we thought. Surely the best restaurants in the world can’t be perfect, right? Right?

So, in order to give some really fair and balanced views of the world’s best restaurants, we turned to the ever-reliable, ever-crazy customers unafraid to air their true opinions of a joint: Yelp. In a new series, we’re digging through some of the most renowned restaurants’ Yelp feedback to paint an accurate picture of what you’re really getting for your dollar. As we suspected, Yelpers are hilariously jaded, bringing down the so-called best of the best.

In our new series Hot On the Burner, we analyze which restaurants and chefs are having their best week ever in the press — and who’s getting burned, and hard. This week, we discuss one of the most “influential restaurants” that everyone can’t stop talking about — Eleven Madison Park.

Check out our Q&A with John after the jump for more on how competing on Top Chef inspired his restaurant, what was going down behind the scenes (including, apparently, a lot of Xanax), and which Top Chef alumni he thinks tanked their careers after the show.

We get it, Gael Greene, you have a reputation of being a classically foxy tease to uphold. But as a member of the new Foodie.com Top 100 Restaurants Judges’ Panel, tasked with listing the best restaurants in the world along with a cohort of peers, you cannot expect to keep dropping hints about certain restaurants and not get us hot and bothered with speculation.